Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor Emmanuel Chapman Memorial Fellowship which is given to a French student to study at Harvard, has been awarded to Pierre Brodin, who is at present teaching at the Lycee Clemenceau at Nantes. The Stillman Scholarship, also awarded to a French student, will be held by Henri Supper, a graduate of the Ecole Speciale des Travaux of Paris, for study in the Harvard Engineering School. The Jay Backus Woodworth Fellowship in Geology, given in honor of the late Professor Woodworth by his students, has been awarded to Howard A. Powers, of Brookings, South Dakota. The James Edward Ditson Fund, providing...
...jeweler "compensation" in the form of a receipt which he could cash in paper pesos. Thus swank Weil's received a bit of paper on which a carabineer had scribbled "350,000 pesos." Marching bands of well-fed unemployed hailed "The First Socialist Government of Chile!" Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister of Public Works, complained, "The Government offices seem to be full of merely curious visitors," shooed out as many as possible...
...songs-a black rascal raised in a waifs' home, whose first real job was playing on a Mississippi steamboat; a headliner unimpressed by contracts, with a jail sentence in his past for using drugs. Okeh, a subsidiary of Columbia Phonograph Co., knows all this. So does Victor Talking Machine but just the same they were fighting last week over Louis Armstrong. The courts in California were going to have to decide whether he was bound to go on making Okeh records for another year or whether he could sign up with Victor...
...realizes perfectly the need for tireless rehearsing. Louis Armstrong may have developed a fancy man's taste for clothes, travel with 20 trunks full of them. But no black man works harder than he does. In Depression not many phonograph artists are worth fighting over but Victor and Okeh are both aware that more than 100,000 Louis Armstrong records sold during the past year, that he is one of the few orchestra leaders whom radio has not overpopularized. Radio, as a matter of fact, is a little wary of his improvisations. Several times he has been switched quickly...
...musical comedy behaved like a comic opera last week. It came back to Broadway just as if it had been written by Gilbert & Sullivan or Franz Lehar or Victor Herbert. It set people to singing again songs they had never forgotten. Musical comedies do not act that way. They make what money they can while they are new, then fade into limbo forgotten except perhaps for a stray tune. But four years ago, even before the first curtain went up, Broadway sensed that Jerome Kern's Show Boat was different...